Curriculum

Gigapan Curriculum Collection

Gigapan offers educators a malleable vehicle to initiate a worldwide conversation between people of all ages, genders, cultures, and languages so that they become knowledgeable about their own environment and understand and care about the issues facing the world today.

The Gigapan Curriculum Collection enables professors, teachers and instructors to teach their students how to take panoramic HD images, and share them around the world. Over 6,000 students are trained worldwide in almost 300 schools or other organizations, helping Gigapan to develop curriculum for kindergarten to post-college levels, with topics ranging from natural sciences and architecture, to creative writing and mathematics.

How Can I Use Gigapan?

The following curriculum is designed to make Gigapan technology accessible to all teachers and students. It is divided into two main categories:

a) Those in which students are “consumers” of Gigapan images. These projects are accessible to all and do not require using the panohead.

b) Those in which students are “producers” of Gigapan images who use the panohead to take images with specific educational intent.

These unit plans are the work of many teachers in a variety of settings. As with any curricular plans, teachers can adapt them to suit their own needs, incorporate them into larger projects, or use an enhancement to existing curriculum. A Blank Project Template allows instructors to develop their own projects and share them in a universal format with the Gigapan community of educators.

Guide for Gigapan Curriculum

Please visit these links to get started and learn more about using Gigapan in the classroom.

I. Orientation: How to use existing Gigapan images to enhance learning

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Gigapan Education & Research Incentive

For qualified applicants, Gigapan will offer the opportunity to purchase a Gigapan EPIC or EPIC 100 with a discount of 20% off the listed price. To learn more about how you can apply for the Gigapan Education and Research Incentive, please contact us.